Topic: continuous monitoring
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NETSCOUT Enhances Cloud Compliance for Enterprises
NETSCOUT has enhanced its Omnis KlearSight Sensor for Kubernetes to provide deeper visibility for compliance, accelerating threat detection and validating zero-trust policies in response to widespread Kubernetes adoption. The platform addresses compliance risks by capturing packet- and process-le...
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Astra's Offensive-Grade Scanner Cuts Noise, Proves Risk
Traditional quarterly cloud security scans are insufficient for rapidly changing environments, leading to undetected critical misconfigurations that are a primary cause of breaches. A new scanner addresses this by using an offensive-grade validation engine to actively test and confirm exploitable...
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Top Cybersecurity Open-Source Tools: October 2025 Edition
This month's selection of open-source cybersecurity tools offers cost-effective solutions for strengthening security across IT environments, including code analysis and network monitoring. Key tools highlighted include Checkov for infrastructure code scanning, DefectDojo for vulnerability managem...
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SaaS Security Demand Surges as Data Breaches Rise
Businesses overestimate their SaaS security, with 75% reporting incidents in the past year, a 44% increase from previous figures, highlighting a gap between confidence and actual protection. Many organizations rely too heavily on SaaS providers' security assurances instead of verifying their own p...
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Cayosoft Guardian SaaS: Always-On Hybrid Identity Protection
Cayosoft Guardian is now available as a SaaS model, launching in Q1 2026, offering zero downtime and no maintenance for continuous identity protection and rapid recovery during attacks. The platform enhances hybrid Microsoft identity security by moving to the cloud, ensuring businesses can mainta...
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How to Build Trustworthy and Secure AI for Cyber Resilience
Securing AI systems is now as critical as using AI for defense, requiring a shift to cyber resilience that ensures these systems can withstand and recover from sophisticated attacks. The evolving threat landscape includes AI-specific risks like data poisoning, model theft, and prompt injection, n...
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Secure Your Network: NIS2 Password, MFA & AD Best Practices
The EU's NIS2 Directive mandates stricter cybersecurity measures, including robust risk management, proactive identity and access management, and continuous monitoring for compliance across various sectors. Strengthening Active Directory is essential under NIS2, as it centralizes authentication a...
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GreyNoise Launches MCP Server for AI-Powered SOC Workflows
GreyNoise Intelligence has launched an MCP Server to integrate real-time threat intelligence into AI-driven security operations, enabling faster decision-making and automated workflows. The tool allows AI agents to access high-fidelity threat data, enhancing capabilities like noise reduction, aut...
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Boost SaaS Security with NIST CSF & Agentic AI
The rapid adoption of SaaS and AI often outpaces security, creating risks; the NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides a structured blueprint to balance innovation with robust protection. Effective security requires strong governance and collaboration between InfoSec and SaaS teams, alongside criti...
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Panaseer IQ Suite: AI Explains Risk Changes and Guides Remediation
Panaseer's new IQ Suite uses generative AI to transform complex security data into clear, actionable guidance and remediation steps, enabling proactive, risk-driven security management. The platform provides role-specific intelligence across three views: executive scorecards, managerial dashboard...
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ImmuniWeb Expands Discovery with ASM & Dark Web Monitoring
ImmuniWeb's Q3 update introduced over 500 enhancements, including two new specialized packages for its CTEM platform: Attack Surface Management and Dark Web monitoring. The ASM package offers real-time visibility and security testing for digital assets, while the Dark Web package provides daily t...
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Unseen Dangers of Generative AI
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI for productivity but are dangerously unprepared for the unique cybersecurity risks it introduces, such as vulnerabilities from generative models. A significant gap exists between AI investment and security readiness, with most organizations lacking processes to ...
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Secure Your Copilot: Sentra's Zero-Trust Data Protection
Sentra has introduced a specialized security solution to protect sensitive enterprise data within Microsoft 365 Copilot environments, ensuring compliance and safeguarding confidential information. The platform offers capabilities such as discovery and classification of sensitive data, data access...
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Secure OT Systems with Continuous Operations, Not One-Time Fixes
Cyberattacks on operational technology systems are alarmingly common, with 91% of surveyed organizations experiencing breaches or failures in the past 18 months, leading to service disruptions and significant financial and reputational damage. Traditional IT security methods are inadequate for OT...
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Unified Exposure Management: The Future of Cyber Defense
The traditional cybersecurity model focused on detecting and responding to breaches is no longer sufficient, as modern organizations require proactive defense strategies to prevent attacks before they occur. A shift towards Unified Exposure Management Platforms (UEMPs) addresses this need by cont...
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Why EASM is Essential for Modern Cybersecurity
EASM tools are critical for identifying and managing external vulnerabilities by discovering internet-facing assets and exposures that attackers could target. These tools operate through continuous discovery, automated security analysis, and risk-based reporting to enhance visibility and prioriti...
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Zero Trust for AI: Extending "Never Trust, Always Verify"
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI assistants to boost productivity, but this introduces new security vulnerabilities that traditional models cannot handle, requiring the extension of Zero Trust principles to these autonomous agents. AI agents operate with dynamic, evolving access needs and often...
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Apple Watch AFib Detection: New Study Reveals Accuracy
A new study found that using an Apple Watch for continuous monitoring identified significantly more cases of atrial fibrillation (AFib) in at-risk older adults than standard care, often detecting the condition in asymptomatic individuals. The research revealed a stark contrast: 21 people in the A...
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Secure Your Cloud with cnspec: Open-Source Policy & Security
cnspec is an open-source tool that provides unified security and compliance scanning across diverse technologies, identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to prioritize fixes. It supports a wide range of targets including cloud platforms, Kubernetes, containers, SaaS applications, infras...
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Shadow AI: New Strategies to Solve an Old Problem
A 1Password study reveals that Shadow AI is the second most common form of shadow IT, with 27% of employees using unapproved AI tools and 37% inconsistently following AI policies, indicating a lack of clear guidelines and enforcement. Organizations are advised to adopt proactive measures, includi...
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Concentric AI Enhances Data Security with New Governance Integrations
Concentric AI has launched new integrations for its Semantic Intelligence platform, enhancing data governance and security in cloud and developer environments with features like automated risk detection and proactive protection. Key integrations include Wiz for precise cloud data protection, GitH...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing Zero Trust
Zero trust security shifts from assuming internal network trust to continuously verifying every user, device, and application attempting to access resources, starting with foundational actions like enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) and removing stale accounts. The model adds intelligent...
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Stop These Common Security Breaches Before They Hit You
The most significant threats to organizational security come from three common methods: stolen credentials, phishing, and unpatched software vulnerabilities, which exploit human behavior and operational gaps. Stolen credentials are increasingly prevalent, with a 160% surge in leaks, and employees...
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Kraken Ransomware Evolves With Advanced Benchmarking
In August 2025, the Kraken ransomware group emerged as a sophisticated threat, using SMB vulnerabilities for initial access, Cloudflare for persistence, and SSHFS for data exfiltration before deploying cross-platform malware. Kraken's ransomware features an advanced benchmarking process to optimi...
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The AI Adoption Boom: Are You Managing the Risk?
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI for risk management but lack confidence in governance, creating a vulnerability as they race to implement technology without foundational structures for reliability. Many organizations fall into a "middle maturity trap" where initial progress stalls due to insuf...
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Whoop Opens Blood Testing to 350,000-Person Waitlist
Whoop Advanced Labs has launched its blood testing service for a waitlist of 350,000, offering comprehensive analysis through Quest Diagnostics to monitor various health indicators. The service integrates blood test results with data from the Whoop band on activity, sleep, and vital signs to prov...
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Cyber Security Month: Are You at Risk of a Cyber Crash?
This October's Cyber Security Awareness Month is a critical call to action for Australian businesses, emphasizing the urgent need to address digital vulnerabilities highlighted by recent data breaches and sophisticated phishing attacks. Organizations must modernize legacy technology and implement...
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Don't Let Your Crawl Budget Drain Revenue in the AI Era
AI crawler traffic surged 96% between 2024 and 2025, creating a need to efficiently manage crawl budgets by prioritizing high-value pages that drive revenue over less impactful ones. The PAVE framework helps evaluate crawl priority by assessing pages' Potential, Authority, Value, and Evolution, e...
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AI Complicates Identity Management: New Challenges Ahead
Identity security is increasingly critical for enterprise protection, but many organizations struggle with the complexities introduced by AI and machine identities, creating significant risks. A majority of companies are in early stages of identity program maturity, relying on manual processes, w...
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Forescout eyeSentry: Continuous Cloud Exposure Management
Forescout launched eyeSentry, a cloud-native platform that helps enterprises identify and manage vulnerabilities across IT, IoT, and IoMT assets, addressing the limitations of traditional security measures in modern networks. A study by Forescout reveals that 65% of connected assets in organizati...
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Trump Administration Denies Social Security Data Breach
The Trump administration denied a whistleblower's claim that the Social Security Administration improperly copied the sensitive NUMIDENT database to an unsecured cloud system, asserting it was stored on a secured server with continuous oversight. Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano confi...
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